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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1959.

WOMEN SCREAMED AS THE DOOR BURST OPEN...

The Christmas Ride That

CAPTAIN, or rdgazine.

APTAIN, order every woman and child into

If the Sioux come

over the wall. light the fuse."

Colonel Henry Carrington's words rang out across the frozen parade ground.

It was the desperate order of Between August 1 and Do- a mon about to make a last- comber 20, 1860, thy grurion ditch stand ngainst a horde of test 73 of its men in isolated IGURED Indians In

tiny Indian attacks. Few wood wag- Molated fort on America's gen treins went out without Western frontier.

losing a man.

"For Phil Kearny was bulli on hopes and weaned on inil lets," wrote an old-time offleer Sioux many years after the had been tamed.

And that was an understate- ment,

Pledges of mutual trust had been made at n pekee COD

Celonet Corrington bend, re peated requests for reinforce. divisional head- mits to His quarters at Omaha, Nebraska. They were knored.

Then, just before Christmas, fted Cloud struck,"

Ou

December 21, the wood was attacked by the

of Indians

ference held at Fort Laramie, train Wyoming Territory, in June, largest number 1805, Then the Indian Com far seen in the district.

great missioners had told the Sioux Chief, Red Cloud, thal they Were going to build string of military forts ACTOSS the tribal lands

the

Red Cloud did not argue, He shid only this: "I kill every white man who goes beyond

Fork of Crazy Womtın'a Powder River."

Crazy Woman's Fork marked the limits of Red Cloud's ritory,

Su

The semaphore men on Pilot Hill signalled to the fort that the train was under siege about six miles away on the plains.

the

ctiona

The choice of an officer 10 lead the relief column was ( bad one. For Captain William Fettermon underestimated

celebrated their victory telegraph station to send werd kade at midnight and alment at Sioux.. Once, fact, Fellerman

a1 The wind had droppal pred had boasted. "Give me 80 men with a snip dance, the bloody to Fort Lavande for reinforce once was lost in the darkness,

ments before the Indians

KwW WELS falling heavily. A and I'll ride through the whole trophies from Fellerman's con

mand tied to their coup sticks, tacked and wiped out the tort Slowx nation.

the Flout Only

wooden He called for a yolunteer. entry, John Brough, said lator Carrington stood When Fetterman rode out of

(in- rington arked again. Sull looking after Phillips for a long through for Colonel Henry B. Fort Pill Kearny he had exact- palisades of the fort stood be- Nobody steppeil forward, Car- that Colonel

He stared into the time and murmured, "May God No be with you,” 39 bo OUTIVOİCİ

back to the fort.

But the

that przery

Carrington, of the

18th United States Infantry, were un- equivocal. He was to restock and pro- vision the old mili- tary stockade al Fort Heno, and to build two new posts Fort Phil Kearny and Fort C. F. Smith-in the heart of the Sioux hunting grounds, to protect w#ERON trains of gold-

hungry emigrants

along the Bozeman

Within days

ICT-

came

his arrival on Big Piney Creek to build Fort Carrington had Phil Kearny,

were

dead.

'occupits

y 80 men behind tween its 119 him. An hour later cluding women and children) silence.

officer and nearly 3,000 blooth-hungry grizzled- faces around him the cocky

man could meet his gaze. and his entire force Sloux and Cheyenne.

But Colchet Carrington's

Then a civilian scout named Were multiplied

nightfall John Phillips stepped forward and said: "I don't want to dle any more than

the next man, Colonel. But if it's got to be done, I'll maite the ride,"

Dis- obeying An order troubles

ad when the thousanifold not to pursue Indians beyond brought a howling blizzard that on the Lodge Trail udke, sent the thermometer he had been

tumbling to 25 do main gate am- bushed and slau- grees below zero. For the wind drifts ani chtered by a thou- whipped up snow

against the them high. sand Sioux and plied Cheyenne warriors. fourteen

Colonel Carring- stockade,

fect high wooden forming a perfect

to knew now that rump for the Indians when they

hour Red attacked. at any Cloud and

DOW

Carrington ordered his meri back to the snow digging and

ali the women tud children, Incluring his own wite and two infant daughters, taken underground to the

powder magazine. An officer was pr dered to touch of a fuse if the Sloux succeeded in breaking into the fort, Better they should die than tall into the hands of the battle-crazy rod men,

Mumed in a shaggy buffalo hile coat, his hat Ued on with Hon seurt, enormous mittens

of his hands, "Portugee" Phillipe night. The thick

Sioux snow had hish from the rude into the

sentries.

All he asked was the fastest borse in the fort.

Phillips was 34 years oldi, from the Llund had come Fayal in the Azores, hence his nickname: "Portugee,"

hla Teams of

thevellers the worked fifteen-minute shirts in Trail to the rich goldfields in braves would strike

depleted garrison. Prisoners a desperate attempt to clear the Montana.

were related from the guard drifts. But they could do this room, Every man able to fire a only so long as the Indians de-

The Colonel's own Kentucky discharged from the layed their attack. run was

Colonel Carrington swramoned bred stallion, Blaze, was the best hospital. And Fort Phil Kearny

horse avaliable, and Carrington be was made ready to repel an at- all the able-bodied men for

conference of war, Standing on gave orders for him to tack.

Live

table, he told them that saddled up. drums of

Sloux n **HE

"Portugre" Phillips slipped hordes could be heard throb- someone had to make the dan-

197-mile ride to the out of a alde gate in the stoc- bing in the distance as the In- gerous

lost ten men, Soldiers on tro

felling details

in the woods with arrows

Scouts rent out

were riddled

they worked.

to look for Indians never came back.

+

ACKY'S DIARY & JACKY Mendelsoh

Yesterday we WENT Shopping for a new Car for Daddy TO drive, Cause THE one he got is all Banged Up,

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Before him, 235 mãos distant, lay Fort Laramie, Behind him, 119 people who depended on hisi Endurance and knowledge of And the plains for their vien,

(Continued on Page 21)

The first Store WE WENT IN THEY SHOWed usacArtHey said WAS Bran New, Only IT LOOKED REAL OLD TO ME ON A COUNT of it was ALL GREY ON TOP Just Like Grampa.

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But guess its TERILY good Like That," CAUSE THEY GOT an Other Button That if! YOU PUSH IT, The SEATS IT UP CRUNCH YOU ON The

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THEN WE WANT to an

OTHER STORE That had Some Cars That must of Been WaSHED TOO MUCH, AS THEY thad all

SHRUNK.

So Then They showed us an other car ONLY IT WAS busted. The MANTOUCHED

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